[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

One would expect the fossil record to be discrete. Fossilization is phenomenon that is extremely rare and reliant on very specific environmental and geologic circumstances.

You apparently don't understand what it means to say that the fossil record is "discrete."

On the contrary, evolution is quite adequate for explaining the vast variety of living creatures on Earth. It is a method to the madness.

So? "Explanatory power" is not an indicator of factuality.

[GunRunner]

You apparently don't understand what it means to say that the fossil record is "discrete."

You don't even have a fundamental understanding of the claims evolution makes, demonstrated by your insistence that the theory of evolution claims to explain the origin of life. So a semantic argument seems rather irrelevant.